The Irish standard., 1887-08-20
CITY BRIEFS.
Carpets, furniture and stoves sold on
time. Smiths Installment House.. Ill
NicOllet avenue -

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Nicollet avenue.
If you want 6rst-class coal and wood
call on John Norton, room IL, Temple
Court. Telephone 3142.
C. l.. Barry, contractor and builder,
Stone and brick speciality 725 Uni
versity avenue northeast.
Immaculate Conception Crusaders
will attend Holy Communion in a body
tomorrow morning at o'clock Mass.
The Feast of the Assumption was
celebrated last Monday at all the Catho-
lie churches in the city with the usual
Sunday observances.
The new elevator TO be built on the
site of the one recently burned down is
to be finished by December /, and will
hold 500 900 bushels OF grain.
Tomorrow Sunday fourteen hours
will be the time to and from Chicago,
the Omaha, Burlington and Milwaukee
having followed in the track of the
Minnesota & Northwestern.
Postmaster G eneral Villas has ordered
the completion Of 5he new post-office
building as quick as possible. MIR. An
keny thinks the building will now be
ready for occupancy by July next.
The season at the Grand Opera opens
Monday evening with Haverly's min
strels for the first half of the week, and
BARLEY Campbell's drama, my Gerald
ine," Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
At St. Stephens Church next We'd
nesday morning Miss Minnie Higgins
will be married to MIR. J. j. Dissette,
by Rev. Father Kenny. After the
ceremony the married couple will take
a trip to Canada, visiting relatives.
The retreat of the clergyof the diocese
of st. Paul commences next Monday at
Thomas Seminary, Merriam Park, and
closes Saturday. 1t will he conducted
by Rt. Rev. Bishop GiImour, of the do
cese of Cleveland, Ohio. There will be
$50 priests in attendance.
The Sisters Of St. Joseph have taken
possession OF the Catholic hospital
building, with Mother Ignatia, of the
Order of St. Joseph, as Superioress. The
building is undergoing the necessary re-
pairs, and the medical staff will be
chosen during the coming week.
Ex-Governor r. M. Bishop, of Gin
cinnati, who was elected Governor of
Ohio in 1877 by $4,000 Democratic ma
jority, has be y looking over Mime
apolis the past week. He is of the
opinion that Cleveland will be renom-
mated and reelected without doubt.
(. f. Mercer & Co., are now estab-
lished in their new place of business,
109 Second street south, where they will,
as heretofore, continue to do the very
best and neatest work in their line that
the city affords, The laundry of T. E.
Mercer & Co, has no superior in the
Northwest.
Over 5000 people attended the G.. A.
K. picnic at Minnehaha Wednesday.
The day was a fine one and the picnic
grounds most beautiful. All the Grand
Army posts from Minneapolis and St.
Paul were there. Addresses were de-
livered by Mayor Ames, Gen. G. G.
Andrews, Judge Rea, Governor McGill
and others.
The body Of John Lewis, the colored
waiter. drowned at Minnetonka, Au-
gust s. was buried from Connolly's I'M
dertaking rooms Monday morning. The
members Of the Lafayette Mascot bali
club, of which he was member, at
tended the funeral in body dressed in
the uniform of the club, each carrying a
bat draped in mourning.
A movement is on foot by a large
number of the lobbers and business
men of Minneapolis to compel the St.
Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba and the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroads TO
bridge the Third, Fourth and Fifth
street crossings at Fourth avenue north,
and committee of fifteen leading busi-
ness men has been appointed to urge
the city's interests.
The water at the Falls is at a very
low stage, hut the mills are running
steady with the aid of steam. The
Northwestern Miller says: Notwith-
standing the serious manner in which
low water interfered with operations
last week, the mills did not allow the
-four output to fall off any, steam being
effectively used to make up the de-
fciency in power. The total product of
the week was 139 $50 barrels averaging